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>it is the simple realities of expecting living creatures to "perform" to a
minimum standard.
If I start a yard of 36 nearly-identical nucs all headed by sister queens
mated at the same time in the same yard, the individual performances of
those 36 colonies, as measured by colony strength and weight gain, will
follow a normal curve, with a few barely growing at all, and a few
producing 3x as much honey as average. And one or more of those fresh
queens will generally fail within a month (no caging, shipping, or
pesticide exposure). Queens and colonies are not like cloned fruit
trees--each colony performs differently.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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